Over the summer of 2019 I produced a climate course called Teaching Today to Save Tomorrow. I was awarded a $10,000 grant to develop materials for a high-school level climate change course by non-profit organization Be Interactive. It is a four week course, amounting to three days of instruction per week. Each week includes complete PowerPoint slides, student assignments, and rubrics. Instructions for a final project and a 120 page teacher manual that elaborates on every lecture and assignment are included as well.

These materials are published under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution license. They are available for free download to use in whole or in part.

My motivation to propose and produce this project was to address a major gap that I recognized in the current educational system in the United States. A majority of K-12 teachers believe it is important to provide education on climate change, yet this is a still developing field of instruction. I found very few complete resources that would provide an education on the topic as a whole, and not just a specific sub-topic like pollution, energy use or renewable energies. This course was designed around the 6 targets specified by the NGSS for climate science literacy. I hope you find it useful.